January 07, 2019

Wellness: A Nation Deluded

Somehow the message has gotten out there that wellness will prevent death.

That's why Barbara Ehrenreich has to remind us in her book "Natural Causes" that obsessives about wellness have not only died. They did that relatively young. Those range from Steve Jobs to James Fixx.

Ehrenreich's book is a best-seller. That means others also are picking up on the delusions associated with wellness.

The wellness mandate is analogous to the positive thinking orthodoxy of the 20th century. And, it punishes heretics just as it did those who weren't positive.

Some remember how they were stunned that their annual performance review noted that they sometimes expressed a negative thought.